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Went to the Apple Store today.. surprise. Was playing with iMovie and noticed they had a bunch of clips that might be fun to play with. 1/2 hour later, this what we got I’m sure if someone randomly surfed onto this video they would really have no idea what was going on.

Ah, it’s my birthday today! My aunt sent me these pictures the other day that she found, and I couldn’t help but share.

Not much has changed.. except the sports aspect of my life unless we’re talking about a sports iphone app game. Oh, and I also don’t go outside very much anymore. Oooh, internet.

I woke up to this neat little treat that Brent, Michael and Erik made for me! It imports tweets from twitter with the tag #ij25.

Check it out at: http://happybirthday.ijustine.com

Thanks for all the bday wishes everyone

Woo, ask iJ #5!

HOW TO ASK QUESTIONS ON TWITTER:

Follow me twitter.com/ijustine — Type in the “What are you doing box” is the following: @ijustine type your question here #askij

SHOW NOTES:

Commercials I’m in: Mozy.com — Online storage backup. Yay!

iPhone apps: FreshWater Aquarium, Dr. Awesome, Deal or no Deal, UrbanSpoon, LightningTap, Jared, Sheep Stacker, Trism, Pocket God, PunchOMeter

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Theme song by: Geoff Smith

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Today was a preview of the 3.0 software for the iPhone. This is a pretty crucial time because everyone is all up in arms about the Palm Pre and we are just patiently awaiting to see what Apple will do to compete.

Sadly, the release of the new update won’t be available until the summer for us but the developer beta is ready to go for them to start working on those new apps taking advantage of all the new features!

What I’m most excited about is that FINALLY there will be copy & paste. In addition, one the biggest features lacking in mail, is search.. which will also FINALLY be available! These are two such simple features that should have never been left out in the first place.. but I guess that’s Apple’s little way of teasing us along for 2 years. Hoping. Waiting..

For the iPod touch users, it will be a $9.95 update and not all features will be available to iPhone 2G owners like MMS and Stereo Bluetooth.. Keep reading for some keynote highlights from this morning.

APP STORE FACTS:

• 25,000 apps in the App Store.
• 98% apps were approved in 7 days or less. There have been more than
• Over 800 million downloads of all apps total in just 8 months

OVER 100 NEW FEATURES FOR THE CONSUMER!

• COPY AND PASTE!!!! You double tap on a piece of text and it will automatically place a bubble above it with the option to cut, copy or paste the current selection. To bring up the paste option, you just have to double tap again. To make a bigger selection of text, double tap and then drag where you’d like the text to end. You can also drag this text around. To undo a paste, just shake your phone!

• You can now send more than one photo by copying and pasting them into the Mail app.
• Use landscape (wide keyboard mode) in applications SMS, notepad, mail etc.
• New message app supports MMS! (Really, it’s about time) Send and received photos through the network.
• Voice memos that you can record edit, share and email directly from the app
• New calendar support! gcal! Subscriptions, .ics format, exchange
• Stock app added news and more details.
• SEARCH IN MAIL!!! finally! ..and other applications: Contacts, notes, calendar, iPod
• New Spotlight home screen that will let you search all of your applications.
• YouTube improvements!! ratings, subscriptions and profiles!
• Notes sync with iTunes, Shake to shuffle, WiFi auto-login, Stereo Bluetooth, parental controls, call log, iTunes account creation, anti-phishing, meeting invitations and more.

UPDATES FOR THE DEVELOPER:

• 1,000 new APIs: In game voice chat, iPod library access, proximity sensor, audio recorder, battery life, streaming audio and video, data detectors, text selection, UI alert view, shake API and GPS
• In-app purchases: Subscriptions for magazines, additional levels for games, and eBooks. Example, new Sims game — You will be able to buy items directly inside the game from the app store for $0.99 — this is really changing the revenue game for developers!
• Turn by Turn directions apps using Google Maps API
• Peer to Peer connectivity using bluetooth - Multiplayer gaming / sending business cards wirelessly

• With the new SDK, accessory developers will be able to make custom applications that can communicate directly with the accessory. Example: FM transmitter, blood pressure monitor, insulin meter

• Push notification for apps — Alerts appear like SMS, badges show up on the app icon, and audio alerts will be heard in the background. The battery life is said to only decrease by 23% while on other devices using background processes killed the battery life 80% — But still, with over 9 pages of apps and maybe 50% with with push notifications, my phone will last for 10 minutes!

SOME NEW APPS THEY TALKED ABOUT:

Sims 3: You will be able to purchase items directly from the application, playing music from the stereo using your music library.

LiveFire: First person shooter game.. You shake to jump, push-notify to play together with your friends, buy new weapons using real money. This could get pricey!

TouchPets: A social networking app for your virtual dog. Set up play dates using push notification, buy items for your pet like clothes, toys, food!

Leaf Trombone: Much like the Ocarina, but not..

Let me know what you think of the updates! Are you excited? Angry? Happy? Glad? Hoping for something else that wasn’t announced? Let me know!

Vote Steve Wozniak (yes, you heard correctly.. the other Apple founder, I kid you not) on Dancing with the Stars! I don’t have a TV and the full episodes aren’t on hulu, so I can’t say I watch this show.. but I did see the clip of Woz with his dance partner Karina Smirnoff. Check it out if you haven’t seen it:

HOW TO VOTE FOR WOZ

Once the show begins tonight (Monday, March 16th) you can vote online or call 800-868-3410 until noon Tuesday. AT&T users can text VOTE 3410. You better believe I’ll be texting like crazy! Woz needs the votes tonight to stay on the show!

You can also follow the Vote Woz movment on twitter @votewoz which was started by @chrisharrington.

..and last but not least, there is a blog interview on Wired today with Chris and he thinks I’d be great for the next season of Dancing with the Stars?!?!?

What do you think?! I mean, you guys have seen my dancing skills. Feel free to post a comment over on wired and let them know that you think I’d be a good candidate thanks!

Blogging in my car with some Shamwows in my backseat. That’s how I roll.

Oh oh oh, the day has arrived.

Actually, that day arrived a few days ago but I finally have been able to approve all of my friend requests on Facebook! Connect with me here: http://facebook.com/ijustine

As you may remember, one of my biggest complaints is that I was never able to approve all of my friend requests. The Facebook friend limit caps at 5,000 friends for profile pages.

Granted, it’s still not perfect but it’s almost there. Pages have been changed over with more interactivity than before. They act more like profiles!

I’m sure you all have noticed the new Facebook homepage as well. What do you think of it? Looks a lot more twitterish if you ask me!

Soooo, I had made a little bet with myself that I could / couldn’t get on the Ellen Show. I’m hoping that the Justine who bet I could — wins!

If you get a free chance this weekend and / or on Monday, please tweet this text to Ellen and let’s see if she’ll have me on the show. Let’s see if the power of twitter will prevail

TEXT TO TWEET:
@theellenshow have @ijustine on your show! http://bit.ly/ijustineonellen RT

Thanks so much everyone! You are all amazing and always so supportive of my random online adventures. You guys ROCK!!!

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Apple has released a new choking hazard iPod shuffle with a few new added features that weren’t in the last version. It has text to speech capabilities that will read you the title and artist of the song that’s playing. They’ve moved the controls to the earbuds to make it even easier to use.

Apple says you can use it with your eyes closed.. Maybe I will have to get one and test it out. I’ll go for a jog with my new shuffle keep my eyes shut the entire time!

It’s 4 gigs, can hold around 1,000 songs and retails at $79! I’ll have to have a new contest sometime soon

Yay! Ask away.. leave video responses, comments and ask questions on twitter…

HOW TO ASK QUESTIONS ON TWITTER:

All you would need to type in the “What are you doing box” is the following: @ijustine type your question here #askij